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... I ... it was this holy ... light was from me as well as all call me new things first class and the euro to tap into the group ... remain in the coming to everything on ... Blu ray ... now was lying ... Starr was as good a part of heartbreaker and a Wonder all in one will that is the essence of Woody Allen's new movie ... Blue Jasmine according to Wall Street Journal film critic Joe Morgenstern joins us right now ... with Joe's take a job ... wounded ... the story of rags to riches to rags in America not the most unusual plot but why is this one so special ... the twenty oh and has had his ups and downs lately and this is a bigot of ... because it combines a reduced to ruins ... of ... the riches to read this story the cake ... it alleges ... what is Jasmine ... I was born in June as one ... of the formerly married to Alec Baldwin's Howell who is ... clearly mobile don't Bernie Madoff ... he takes a catastrophic fall she's broke ... she moves too ... sentences go to live with a supermarket checkers sister ... who lost all their money investing in one of the Isles schemes ... the other element the twenty oh and ... this combined in this remarkable movie ... having Kate Blanchett plays ... another version of Blanche Dubois from St and and desire ... it's clear that that's what ... his intention was ... Networks brilliant yet mean it's it's in the anatomy of ... twenty first century America with ... the vast gap between the rich and poor ... and it's this ... reading ... through the ... performance went to lunch at ... the zoo ... Chris annuity's Mobile Don't Blanche Dubois ... yes it's a lot of case work Zhao I'm interested in what you think sort of ... over her tenure as an actor ... I did the is this her role as if it is is the best role she's played ... in Europe and I think ... yes I think two things that she is ... the preeminent the Crucible of time right now ... at the peak of her career ... and you know this and this helps anything she's ever done ... because the script has given her ... more range than him and his ... we note here Wendy about direction ... um ... I was tempted to say Lehrer do that to you know crediting Woody Allen's direction for her ... brilliant performance ... but he has said in interviews that when you directed Blanchett you just get out of the way interesting and was no reason that this will leave it that this is her work she's she's the bomb ... I'm not I act I want your take on Joe before we go is Andrew dice Clay is such an unusual high dive that the foul mouthed comedian too many people may remember from Woody Allen tend to pull an but from what I understand ... he will win over Woody Allen saw him read to this day he was the guy wouldn't you think of as performance ... I think that the dude that played like everyone else in the script is a flawless performance and this is a remarkable past ... Sally Hawkins Tuesday when ... the giving of doing in ... the perfect American accent ... and it does play and Louis C K ... of men and Alec Baldwin's terrifically fun ... it's an ensemble cuts ... in one sense but in another sense it to ... the post article prepaid plan should giving ... the great performance of her career ... so far and you know she has plenty ... of Blanche Dubois ... on the stage for three or four years ago New York ... and missed the performance I wish I could talk about it ... but it's wonderful that it was too soon with she doesn't scream the Moonstone ... I had just taken this week I think a little crush on a just and ... just you know it's a it's a it's a public corruption ...